facts about the play

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  • The play is set in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
  • It was during the great Depression.
  • The Glass Menagerie was actually reworked material from one of Williams' short stories, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass".
  • 1945 won the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
  • In this "memory play", the time scheme moves freely between the past (the 1930s) and the present (1944-1945).
  • The Glass Menagerie was Williams's first successful play
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